James T. Mahan, senior vice president, corporate supply chain operations for 3M (St. Paul, Minn.), a position he held since 2005, will retire on Dec. 1, 2006, after 37 years at the company.
John K. Woodworth, currently vice president, Asia Pacific, will replace him in the position, effective immediately. Mahan started his career at 3M in 1969 as an industrial engineer at the company’s tape plant in Hutchinson, Minn.